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Henrietta Harris

9 — 20 Nov 2019 at the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami Beach, United States

18 October 2019

Henrietta Harris. Courtesy of Robert Fontaine Gallery

Robert Fontaine Gallery, located in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District, will showcase new works by New Zealand based artist Henrietta Harris in a solo exhibition entitled “Second Best” The opening reception will be held Saturday, November 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. during Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. The exhibit will be on view November 9 through November 20.

Henrietta Harris, is a New Zealand based artist who explores, the human condition, through a muted, soft and weightless palette. The faces in her paintings are often of young subjects, with gleaming eyes, filled with a sense of hope and confusion. As a result her paintings, as physical objects breathe life, conveying all the vulnerabilities and truths that are deeply obvious in each frozen face that she has left for us to explore.

In her process Harris decides on each portrait as she primes the canvas. Her paintings although formal do not come from preliminary drawings or sketches, but rather, find their way into existence simply by an undetermined process, where color meets the canvas.

Consistent throughout her body of work, including those in her newest solo exhibition Second Best Henrietta’s style and mission as a painter is that of a story teller. Documenting and distorted faces and personalities are of particular curiosity to her mission. In her own words: my paintings represent a stream of consciousness.

The Robert Fontaine Gallery, provides a platform for emerging, mid-career and established artists ranging in historical scope from the origins of Post War to the most current evolutions of digital media, conceptual installation and urban interventionist.